You can hear her crying faintly through the walls A husky man's voice echoes in the hall Banging with a roar It's not your business where I've been Open up this door before I kick it in Promised to each other back in Sicily Papa made a deal with the family My word will be my bond Our blood will be the tie To keep this household strong No matter who must die Rosa, heaven chose her Ciro posed her In the pictures on the mantles In her wedding dress Rosa, no one knows her Rosa, the lady next door The deed was done for all the sons that she would bear They married her young and they buried her there A prisoner of fate Aching to be free She will get them back just you wait and see Rosa, heaven chose her Ciro posed her In the pictures on the mantles In her wedding dress Rosa, no one knows her Rosa, the lady next door Everything is quiet on the second floor The ambulance has come to take them to the morgue I wasn't here but I heard it on the stoop She stabbed him in his sleep and then shot herself to boot Rosa, heaven chose her Ciro posed her In the pictures on the mantles In her wedding dress Yes, it's Rosa, no one knows her Rosa, the lady next door